I am due for some blood tests and my usual doctor will charge a consultation fee before ordering the tests and then an uplift from the lab fee. The only benefit I get for all these added costs is an air conditioned room to sit in.

I know there is a clinic in street 154 by Norodom called Paramed Lab so if anyone can recommend them or any alternatives it would be appreciated.

I have tried a search and specified Blood Tests as the Topic title but the only result was from 2014 so an update might be useful.

As always, many thanks in advance...

Family Clinic on 1019 (Hanoi) certainly does some blood tests onsite, they are on Facebook

Doc67 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 8:31 am I am due for some blood tests and my usual doctor will charge a consultation fee before ordering the tests and then an uplift from the lab fee. The only benefit I get for all these added costs is an air conditioned room to sit in.

Idk if you are a doctor of medicine yourself, but it's probably good to let your doctor define what tests you get

I've done hundreds of dollars of blood tests and all the rest at paramed and taken them to the batty English doctor who then berated me for not having seen him first and sent me back for more before launching into an eccentric rant about parasitic worm eggs being everywhere in this country

armchairlawyer wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 11:53 am

Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 11:43 am

Doc67 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 8:31 am I am due for some blood tests and my usual doctor will charge a consultation fee before ordering the tests and then an uplift from the lab fee. The only benefit I get for all these added costs is an air conditioned room to sit in.

Idk if you are a doctor of medicine yourself, but it's probably good to let your doctor define what tests you get

I've done hundreds of dollars of blood tests and all the rest at paramed and taken them to the batty English doctor who then berated me for not having seen him first and sent me back for more before launching into an eccentric rant about parasitic worm eggs being everywhere in this country

I can see why you have such confidence in the doctor defining the tests you need, or maybe not.

Well, there days I take myself to a doctor with less quirks, a much more savoury reputation/history and who also charges less than $125 per consultation by a factor of 5

Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 1:12 pm

armchairlawyer wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 11:53 am

Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 11:43 am

Doc67 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 8:31 am I am due for some blood tests and my usual doctor will charge a consultation fee before ordering the tests and then an uplift from the lab fee. The only benefit I get for all these added costs is an air conditioned room to sit in.

Idk if you are a doctor of medicine yourself, but it's probably good to let your doctor define what tests you get

I've done hundreds of dollars of blood tests and all the rest at paramed and taken them to the batty English doctor who then berated me for not having seen him first and sent me back for more before launching into an eccentric rant about parasitic worm eggs being everywhere in this country

I can see why you have such confidence in the doctor defining the tests you need, or maybe not.

Well, there days I take myself to a doctor with less quirks, a much more savoury reputation/history and who also charges less than $125 per consultation by a factor of 5

I am going to use a composition of previous tests which covers the basics well enough. If anything comes up out of the normal parameters I'll seek professional advice. If I pass all the tests I will be throwing a party with the money saved on quack fees.

This is the menu:

Full Blood Count
Urea & Electrolytes
Enzymology - Liver function tests
Tumour Markers including PSA
Glycemia & HbA1c - blood sugar and history of it (diabetes)
Lipids - Cholesterol
Thyroid Function-T4 & TSH
Inogram - Sodium & Potasium
Plus all the poxes.

What is the parasite worm eggs? If that is a test I will add it to my shopping list.

Who's the batty doctor? Is it the one once seen in the newpapers for "dishonourable' reasons?